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Liam,
Which kind of phone company are you hooked up with? Sounds like they
are laying a line on you. Pun intended. Then again they really may
not have any circuits anywhere near you. It is a business type
connection so it usually comes out of an exchange that has serviced
businesses for 15 to 20 years. Mine came from the next nearest
exchange to me.
Jimmy
Monday, January 3, 2005, 12:05:07 PM, you wrote:
L> Jimmy,
L> ISDN isn't available. At one time telco Engineering thought they could
L> do it if I gave them 15-thousand bucks. Then, decided they didn't have
L> the resources even for that dough. But, said a T1 was destined for a
L> major phone-computer using government org 5 miles further north and that
L> the T1 would run within 1.25 miles of my place. Whenever that happened,
L> a fractional T1 would be available. Maybe. That project is 1-yr behind
L> schedule at last word.
L> Jimmy wrote:
>> Liam,
>>
>> I used ISDN when I lived in the boondocks. Dual channel is very solid
>> and runs 128k all day and all night with no problems. Actually single
>> channel would have been fine. Also used DTN satellite but that doesn't
>> sound like your kind of deal.
>>
>> Jimmy
>>
>> Monday, January 3, 2005, 11:46:27 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> L> Isolating a data feed problem today and will be interested to hear how
>> L> eSignal servers have performed today.
>>
>> L> Some details ....
>>
>> L> This rural location permits only 28.8K telephone wire or satellite ISP
>> L> conections. I use both. But, by bonding (using Windows Multilink) two
>> L> phone lines the bandwidth is doubled. Most of the time this is OK.
>>
>> L> Today, for ER2 only coming in along with IB's ER2 data, that was not
>> L> enough. IB's TWS software lost connection as did TS2Ki using the
>> L> eSignal over phoneline feed many times in the first hour.
>>
>> L> The StarBand satellite internet connection has the latency issue. With
>> L> an average latency over 1-second and often exceeding 3 seconds, the tick
>> L> based bars will often stop updating for 5 seconds or more, especially in
>> L> a fast market. Starband sat is unsuitable for streaming data, a fact
>> L> Starband makes a point of for those thinking about signing up.
>>
>> L> My thinking now is fast markets are going to require a couple more phone
>> L> lines to increase bandwidth to 128K or so even with the single data feed
>> L> of ER2. There is an added complication provided by noisy phone lines.
>> L> There are times when the noise causes one or both phone connections to
>> L> disconnect.
>>
>> L> And optional idea is to ...
>>
>> L> 1. run only the IB data feed on the phone lines for TWS and a charting
>> L> application using IB's trade data samples. This to be certain of having
>> L> current bars to look at.
>>
>> L> 2. use the satellite feed for charting in TS2Ki for my tick based bars
>> L> which deliver the trade signals.
>>
>> L> Liam
>>
>>
>>
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Best regards,
Jimmy mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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